and i ve admired many people in my life including many people i have known and worked with, but i have been in full awe of exactly one person, my uncle john, the war hero. and a portion of that awe always extends to special forces veterans and combat veterans, and you might detect some of it tonight when i introduce you to former army ranger jason crow who you will meet and i will meet in tonight s episode of meet the freshman. he s a freshman democrat from colorado who woon a congressional district last year that a democrat has never won before. he is bringing his military experience to his new job and bringing his constitutional law experience as a lawyer to his new job when he considers the question of impeachment. and you will hear the story of how an encounter he had with an iraqi man who he was on patrol in baghdad helped shape his
loss of their father as that casket came off the plane. but as senators and troops lined up to pay their respects, we got a new headline from the president. when trump was asked by bloomberg news if he made a mistake on how to respond to the senator s death, he said, quote, no, i don t think i did at all. i ve done everything that they requested, and, no, i don t think i have at all. more to the point, he said he did not miss a chance to unite the country. really? that is the premise for a great debate. let s bring in nina turner and ken cuccinelli. nina turner, was there a chance to unite the country, and was it missed by the president? absolutely, chris. call him the petty president in chief. i mean he never misses an opportunity to be petty. and, you know, senator john mccain, as you just laid out, was a war hero. he served in the senate. people may not agree with all his policies. certainly i didn t. i did not. but this is not the time to argue the senator s policies when he has
in many cultures, young men would stay with their families until their 40 s. senator john mccain, the maverick, the hero, the navy pilot, the war hero, he has completed his final flight. his casket arrived at joint base andrews in maryland a short time ago after a memorial service in arizona. his widow, cindy, was escorted by defense secretary james mattis. that s what you see there right now. his daughter, meghan. of course this is so difficult for his family. we ve seen them weep over the
him the vote that he needed to repeal it. so, again, petty president even in the death of a war hero and a senator who, as you said, he may not have agreed with him politically, but it s time to put aside the politics and allow his family to grieve and show that he can be a diplomat in senator john mccain s death. he couldn t do that. that was too much to ask. instead, ken, you don t hear that from any of you guys. you hear don t be so tough on him. you guys say, well he was damned if he did, damned if he didn t. i don t think that s true. go ahead. well, look, he did say he did speak to the senator s honorable service. he did offer condolences to the family. the question isn t that he s been disrespecting john mccain. it s what we just heard. he didn t do enough. he didn t do it fast enough. and when the veterans groups came back to him, he did respond to that request. is it how you would have done it, chris, or how i would have done it or how nina would have done it?
lawyers with bob mueller during the deliberations in his trial last week. that is new information courtesy of the wall street journal, which broke the story and suggests mr. manafort may be thinking about alternatives to just sitting through these trials. now, that does it for us here on the beat. hardball starts now. john mccain s final message. this is hardball. good evening. i m steve kornacki in for chris matthews. we begin a somber week across the nation from arizona to washington, d.c., americans mourning the passing of senator john mccain, the war hero, statesman, two-time presidential candidate whose career in congress spanned more than three decades. died saturday after a year-long battle with brain cancer in arizona. rick davis, he was mccain s